Guild Wars 2

Just did mine yesterday. For the veteran risen krait hypnoss, go to Astrozintli Forelands in Sparkfly Fen at this POI [&BMMBAAA=] There will be an event about defending 4 Hylek structures. If it fails ( or it might already be failed when you get there) there will be another event that spawns a Veteran Risen Krait Hypnoss everytime.

Event link on the wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reclaim_the_southern_beach_from_the_Risen

Edit: I took too long to make the post. You guys answered fast! Glad you found it!

It was working fine yesterday. Try completing all the offerings first then retry fusing the fragments ( hoping you haven’t sold them yet)

I wanted to finish my crafting professions to 500 on level 80 alts and saw that crafting doesn’t give experience towards masteries. Do we know if it’s intended or it’s a bug?

If money is not a problem and you would buy gems anyway, buy the ultimate. The 4000 gems are 50% off in the ultimate version. Usually 4000 gems are 50$US but if you compare the deluxe edition (75$) and the ultimate (100$), you get 4000 gems for 25$. You could buy Season 2 with those gems :P

If you are interested in the story, I’d highly recommend getting Season 2.

Here’s how the Story/Seasons work:

Personal Story (PS): It’s part of the ‘’Core game’‘. It’s the story that starts when you first make your character, that takes you from your racial city to the defeat of Zhaitan.

Living World/Story (LW/LS): The idea behind the LW is that it’s like a TV show. You’d login every 2 weeks to play the current episode like you would watch every week an episode of a TV show.

LW Season 1: It ran from October 2012 to March 2014. You’d log in every 2 weeks with new content that was mostly temporary. Some lasted for a month and it had some hiatus between episodes for celebrations ( Wintersday, Halloween). Some stuff stayed (Southsun Cove/ The new Twilight Arbor path/ The new Fractals) but mostly stuff stayed for that 2 weeks period then you could never play it again( Scarlet minions maps invasions, the Flame&Frost events, The Marionette, The Tower of Nightmares/ etc).

While it was a cool concept, many people (myself included) found it too demanding and stressful to try doing all the content in just 2 weeks and others where sad that they had missed an episode because of real life stuff. All of this was free by the way, you’d just log in and play it. We also got many things people take for granted today like balance patches, more crafting levels, Ascended Armor, a crap ton of skins, reworks to better UI/events/rewards/etc. We basically got (imho) more than an expansion worth of content and it was good.

There is no way to currently play Season 1 but you can find a recap of the events in the Story Journal.

The Story Journal and Living World Season 2!

Arenanet shifted their focus from temporary content to permanent content. Everything story related now go thru the Story Journal ( Press H for the Hero panel>4th tab) It includes PS, a Season 1 recap and Season 2. Future LW Seasons will be added to the Story Journal and most probably HoT and future exxpansions

LW Season 2: It ran from July 2014 to January 2015. 8 episodes were released, you can see them in the Story Journal. Since they are now permanent content, if you’d log in every 2 weeks between July 2014 to January 2015, you’d unlock the episodes for free. You didn’t need to play them right away, just log in on a character for 1 minute in the 2 weeks period and it would be forever unlock to your whole account ( current and future characters) If you missed an episode, you’d have to buy it with gems at 200 gems per episode or cheaper as a Pack in the ’’Upgrades’’ Section of the gem store. Don’t forget that you can trade gold for gems, currently 200 gems is about 50g.

Arenanet have said that this would be the model for future Seasons. Also I highly doubt they would include Season 2 free with HoT for now, maybe for the next expansion.

If you want more details, I’ll put links below for you to check.
So there you go! I hope it helps you understand the flow of the Story mechanics.

TL:DR Personal Story -> Living World Season 1 (n/a) -> Living World Season 2 -> Heart of Thorns -> Living World Season 3(TBA) -> Future Expansion

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

On the new HoT website, the first video in the raids section titled “Raids in Guild Wars2: Heart of Thorns” shows the ‘’Point of no return’’ easter egg trailler. Further down the page, the “Raids in Guild Wars2: Heart of Thorns” beside the Fractal trailer shows the ‘’ Play for Free’’ trailer.

I’ll just leave this here

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature

Add me to your friend list, I’ll port you in my servers map and spread the word

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Warriors, Rangers, Necros empower their allies, summon or call birds/insects with their warhorns. Eles are heavier spellcasters! They can channel a lot more stuff through a warhorn. Look at it as a different ’’focus’’ for their spells.

I for one thrilled if we’d get a warhorn mainhand. W/D or W/F would be awesome. It could give us fields and finishers we don’t have access to in our current mainhands that would compliment nicely those we have offhands.

Let’s say an ‘’earth’ storm could give us a Dark field or even be a Whirl finisher. An ’’air’’ storm could give us even more crazy mobility ( W/D with RtL and Updraft) with a gust of wind propelling us the enemies, being a leap finisher and a lightning field on landing. More leaps would mean more auras which can synergize well with other ele stuff.

TL:DR Warhorn main hand ftw and much love to Warriors, Rangers and Necros

Is there a plan for Xp for between now and HoT. I know that it will be used for masteries in the expansion, but for now, it seems a bit useless to accumulate it. Or did I miss something?

You can still exchange your soulbound pick for a account bound one at a black lion weapon specialist ( the guy you go see to buy Black Lion weapons with tickets scraps)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Weapons_Specialist#Unlimited_gathering_tools

Any of you guys waiting for this also? We got Mawdrey back in august and the Star of Gratitude at Wintersday, it would be nice to get a ‘’dragonite eater’’ when the LA patch drops or am I the only one with over 50 stacks of the stuff ( mainly from SW :P) ?

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Not everyone has access to the wxp/Bday/guild boosters and running around EotM can get pretty mind numbing and it’s not really WvW :P. The idea was to help new WvWers rank up inbetween seasons since it can be a bit slow in the off season. Once the season starts, you can reallocate your points to fit better what you’ve learn/guild or team you joined.

True that higher ranked players would rank up faster but it would only be about prestige to that point. To the lower ranked players, I think it could be an interesting decision.

The idea would be to add an ability + X% WXP. It would cost 500 ability points total ( 100/200/300/400/500) and would give a +50% WXP total ( +10% per level).

What do you guys think? pros/cons? Discuss!

Twice-Told Legend. It’s under Achievements → General → Explorer.

For those lucky enough to have a duplicate of a legendary, head to the Palace Waypoint in Divinity’s reach ( it’s the one in the center of the map), She is just west of the Laurel vendor. It gives you 25 AP + a new Title.

Isaac, what you are saying is making so much sense!

I won’t submit a ticket because it must be crazy right now for the WvW reward chests but I want to share an observation a friend and I saw if it can help the devs with this issue.

First we are both from Ehmry Bay since launch and never switched home servers. The battle historian in WvW says that we both represent Ehmry Bay for the tournament.

We both participated in WvW season one, I got the meta finished but he didn’t. Ehmry Bay finished 4th place in the Silver League in season 1. So I have the ‘’4th place’’ achievement under ‘’ Achievements >WvW> World vs World’’ for season 1 and he doesn’t since he didn’t finish season 1 meta.

Now for the tournament. Ehmry Bay finished 4th place in the Bronze League alongside Ferguson’s Crossing and Darkhaven ( or the 6th spot on the official leaderboards).

So we log in tonight. He has his 2014 tournament chest waiting for him and he has the 4th place achievement for the 2014 tournament under ‘’ Achievements >WvW> World vs World’’.

I log in and I have no chest but I have the 7th place for the 2014 tournament under ‘’ Achievements >WvW> World vs World’‘. ( I kinda hope I’ll still get the 4th place chest if it’s fixed :P )

So we figure, my account is ’’bugged’’ 2 ways: no chest and wrong ‘’ Xth place’’ achievement since he got 4th place for the 2014 tourney and the leaderboard say 4th place ( or 6th spot on the leaderboard) So I don’t know why I’m seeing 7th place achievement.

We came to the conclusion that maybe because Ehmry Bay came 4th place in both Season/tournament the system buggged out. The achievements only specify ‘’4th place’’ not ‘’ 4th place silver league’’ ( That would be a suggestion for later seasons, change the achievement to indicate in which league it was awarded, it might solve some issues)

So his achievement and chest went thru fine because he did not finished the Season 1 meta and mine bugged out because the 2 ‘’ 4th place’’ achievements collided because of the way the system awards them https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Issues-granting-Season-reward-chests/first (2nd paragraph):

’’Season reward chests are granted via a hidden achievement, which differs for each place within a League. Whether your world placed first in Gold or Bronze League, you’ll be given the same achievement.’’

I hope it can help you guys to figure out what went wrong somewhere. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you need more info. Sorry in advance for any grammatical errors, it’s 4:30 am and this french-canadian is tired :P

Edit: added the paragraph I was referring to.

Hi guys! Has anyone hear anything about those 2 backpieces getting an infused version soon? I’ve googled and searched the forums but didnt find anything about it.

I made my Light of Dwayna during last wintersday thinking I could upgrade it to ’’infused’’ like the fractal ones. Since then we got the Spinal Blade backpiece that can be made upgraded to infused for ’’cheap’’ ( less costly/time consuming then the fractal one :P).

Just wondering if I should wait for a patch for my Light of Dwayna or make a Spinal Blade one and Transmute it. Thank you

If you guys want to do World Events, guest/transfer to Ehmry Bay. We run them every night. We are a pretty active PvE server but we got hit a bit population-wise when our WvW guilds left, so now we are mainly PvE ( for now… :P)

Also, if you need help knowing which World Event is up on what server:

http://us.gw2stuff.com/en/events/ehmry-bay

Just change the server in the upper left corner

Same on Ehmry Bay and Gate of madness

Yeah ‘’in some of the more dangerous areas of Tyria’‘. Been looking in Orr :P Thank you, I’ll check Frostgorge

The patch notes states that portals to the Edge of the Mists are opening all over Tyria. Are those events disabled at the moment since Arenanet is fixing EotM? I’ve been looking for those events since the patch knowing fully well that a lot of people would would throw themselves at EotM in LA. I just want to be sure I’m not looking for something that isn’t there. :P

Thank you! Standing down worked.

I’ll bet you anything that you won’t need sprockets, spore samples, quartz, etc. for precursors or anything else. Those resources are for specialty items, not core content. How can I know? I don’t. But it would be very bad design if let’s say a precursor needed sprockets or others, because they aren’t ’’core’’ components of the game.

What I’m saying is, update those that people already have to be fair and if the next ones to come out comes with added bonuses it’s fine, you won’t need to have them to ’’win’’, there’s no such thing with those resources. Put the tools up for sale every couple of months, hell put them there permanently. Let the people decide if they want the added bonuses or not, you’ll never need those resources for ’’core’’ stuff.

I think I see where you guys are coming from and I can see that it can become a very slippery slope. Even if Anet is a company and must make money to survive and grow, I don’t think just want to milk every cent out of us. With a product like that, I see a ’’patch’’ to ’’fix’’ content.

Let me explain: First, it’s not like sprockets weren’t around the last 6 months. If you wanted them, you could go farm them when Scarlet’s minions were invading a map. But most people stopped doing those events because they were ‘’ too hard/not fun/dumb/etc.’’ There are runes and sigils craftable from sprockets since august 2013. Are they any good? Depends on the builds people want to make. You want those runes/sigils, go farm invasions or buy from the TP, your choice.

Secondly, now that Scarlet’s story is coming to an end shortly ( whenever she dies or not and all that), the invasions will probably go away. Now, the only source of sprockets dies with it. Comes in the sprocket generator from the meta and the watchwork pick axe.

Third, the new Zealot’s stats gear. Was it a good idea that it requires sprockets to make? Maybe, maybe not. Celestial gear requires Quartz. How do you get Quartz if you don’t have the node in your home? Buy from the TP or buy wintersday gifts from the TP and pray to the RNGods. Sentinel’s gear? TP or guild commendations. You can’t get Azurite orbs anymore except for the ones from the TP! Once those are gone, you won’t be able to craft exotic Sentinel’s trinkets, you’ll have to rely on ascended. So far, those stats aren’t being use by most people, so there are a lot of those resources sitting in the TP.

I can get why someone is kittened if they bought the 3-set of tools during Wintersday and now this comes out. There are pros and cons but you got 3 account bound tools for less than I paid for my 3 soulbound ones, so there’s that. Do you really need sprockets that bad? Maybe, maybe not. Let the ‘’ crazy/dumb/fanboy/etc.’’ people like me get that pick and farm sprockets then sell them. By the time you need them they’ll be crazy cheap.

For the 6 previous tools, that’s why I made those suggestions, to ‘’even it out’’, so it could be fair to everybody. You want sprockets? Farm Quartz with your already bought tool, sell them and buy sprockets.

As for what Lord Kuru and Buttercup are saying, I haven’t played a lot of other MMOs so I can’t comment on their cash grabs, but I’ve been playing GW1 since launch and same with GW2. I’ve seen, experienced and bought from Anet for a long time. If they are doing this, it’s because there’s a good reason. If the day comes that they sell gem store products that gives resources easily available anywhere, anytime, then I’ll lose faith in them and stop playing. Call me fanboy, I’ll take it, but I see a company that listen to it’s players and respect them unlike a lot of them out there that have been around for much, much longer.

TL;DR Buy sprockets from the TP, keep calm and ask Anet nicely to update your old tools, they’ll listen

I love the concept of the new pick, a tool that gives a small chance at a resource not available/scarce ways to acquire. My suggestion is to update the old ones and re-release them every couple of months, to give new comers a chance at resources they didn’t have the chance to see.

The idea would be to get 2 resources linked to the release/theme of the tool. Like the quartz node from the Bazaar, that can give Quartz and Charged Quartz ( very low chance), we could see those nodes/ gatherings tools updates to reflect this.

The idea here is to have the ‘’drop rate’’ of the first resource similar or a bit lower to the the ‘’drop rate’’ of the sprockets from the watchwork pick and the 2nd resource, similar or lower, to the Charged Quartz from the home instance node.

Ideas
Molten pick: Azurite Crystal and Orb
Consortium sickle: Passion fruit and Karka shell
Chop-it-all axe (Aetherblade themed): Quartz and Charged Quartz

Bone pick: no idea
Jack-in-the-box Scythe: Candy Corn and Trick or Treat bag
Dreamcleaver axe: 1 or 5 Pristine spore sample

I wouldn’t mind if there’s was a small fee to upgrade them ( i.e.: 150-200 gems, some gold or even some of the resources we would have already gathered, like a stack of passion fruit for the Consortium sickle)

What do you guys think? suggestions?

(Sorry for posting here, I tried the suggestions forums but it’s been archived.)

Go Ehmry Bay

Hi
I’ve been trying to create a new guild for community stuff on my server (Ehmry Bay) but my ‘’ Create Guild’’ button is grayed out. I have created 2 guilds at the moment, one on launch day ( august 25th, 2012) and one a few months later for extra storage :P

Now, the wiki says that you can only create 2 guilds a week, not 2 guilds total. The wiki also says that if you have disbanded 2 guilds in a week, you must wait 1 week before making a new one. I have never disbanded any of those 2 guilds.

So is it a bug that I can’t create a 3rd guild or every account can only create 2 guilds total at a time?

Has anyone been getting this on Ehmry Bay or any other server? For 2 days now I’ve been trying to do The Frozen Maw and it lags like hell and I always get disconnected right when the shaman is going to die ( ~10% health) and miss the event. When I Iog back in, the event is over with no event rewards/chest/bonus chest. Many people complain in map chat that the same thing happened to them.

Thank you all for the responses

In the new article named ‘’World vs. World: Midseason Report’‘, Arenanet speaks of weekly bonus chests based on server performance under the ’’Gold and Glory’’ paragraph.

Are those bonus chests the ones you get on rank up after the reset or are they something else?
I’m not complaining here, just wondering if I’m not missing stuff for my participation I’m on Ehmry Bay and we often get 2nd place in match-ups, so I guess we should be getting 1 or 2 bonus chests.

Also, does personal participation counts towards those rewards? Like starting upgrades, repairing, escorting dolyaks, etc? Like if someone only ‘’karma train’’ one or twice in the week but I cap tower/keep/camp, escort, repair, cap mercs, etc. over the week, do I get something for my ‘’more active’’ participation? I’m rank 140 ( if it means anything)

Sorry in advance if there’s weird phrasing/errors, english is a second language

Hi guys! I got an idea for a ‘’quality of life’’ addition to the dailies for the WvWers. I personally don’t do my daily in WvW but I just thought about those who do.

Here’s the idea:

We have 4 regions Killer / Event completer in the daily ( Maguuma, Ascalon, Kryta and Shiverpeaks) and we have 4 WvW maps. Each WvW map could be matched with a PvE region:

Maguuma -> Green Borderland
Ascalon -> Red Borderland
Shiverpeaks -> Blue Borderland
Kryta -> Eternal Battlegrounds

It could be added to the Daily’s description with something like:

‘’Complete events in the following Shiverpeak Mountains maps: [List of Shiverpeaks maps] and the the WvW Blue Borderland’’

It’s really a ‘’quality of life’’ thing but I think it would be nice and it may bring people more to try WvW since they would get a bit of progression overall.

What do you guys think? Do some of you have trouble/find it’s taking longer to do the Daily in WvW? Does this idea sucks badly? Let me know!

Is there a reason I missed somewhere why we are still getting those? I know you can now sell them for 1s14c/each but still. Shouldn’t they be replaced with Watchwork Sprocket? Just wondering